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Tableau Desktop

Overview

What is Tableau Desktop?

Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual…

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Recent Reviews

Analytics with Tableau

7 out of 10
February 27, 2024
We use Tableau to generate daily and weekly reports for our business module to generate our key performance indicators. These insights we …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (157)
    9.3
    93%
  • Drill-down analysis (159)
    9.0
    90%
  • Formatting capabilities (162)
    9.0
    90%
  • Customizable dashboards (166)
    8.8
    88%

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Pricing

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Tableau Creator

$70.00

On Premise
Per User / Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.tableau.com/products/desktop

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $70 per month
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Product Demos

Tableau Desktop Tutorial | Tableau Desktop Training | Online Tableau Desktop Training - Youtube

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- Tableau Demo: Quick Tutorial to Getting Started with Tableau Desktop

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Tableau Desktop Naming Conventions Part 1

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Tableau Desktop Introduction Part 1

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.5
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.8
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.6
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.6
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.8
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.4
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is Tableau Desktop?

Tableau Desktop supports data-driven decisions by helping users to answer questions more quickly, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights.

Tableau Desktop connects directly to hundreds of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, with the goal of making it easier to start analyses. Interactive dashboards, drag and drop functionality, and natural language queries help users of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights, all from its visual interface. Users can ask deeper questions by quickly building calculations, adding trend lines and seeing statistical summaries, or clustering data to see relationships.


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Tableau Desktop Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

Tableau Desktop starts at $70.

IBM Cognos Analytics, SAP Lumira Discovery, and Qlik Sense are common alternatives for Tableau Desktop.

Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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January 24, 2020

Tableau Desktop in education

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Civic & Social Organization Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Tableau Desktop to organize data from student feedback surveys. We have recently implemented a lot of student feedback and need a centralized system to analyze it. Tableau Desktop helps a lot, and I have led the charge in getting it up and running and teaching other teachers to use it.
December 09, 2019

Tableau Desktop - The nuts and bolts of it.

Ron Rothstain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ron Rothstain
Assistant Director, Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
USC Marshall School of Business (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are transitioning all of the data from my department into Tableau so that it can be stored all in one place and visualized. I work for a university IT department that runs a helpline. Our organization collects data on the individuals that call for help. I am able to use Tableau to analyze the caller demographic data. In doing this I am able to get data-driven answers to questions like "what areas are most in need?", "are there certain populations that seem to be disproportionately impacted by our IT rollouts?", and "are there any trends in this caller data that would suggest we focus our resources on specific issues?".
December 09, 2019

Data management and visual precedence!

Simol Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Simol Shah
Quality Control Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Consumer Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Substantiated training is required to use Tableau Desktop, so most of the incoming associates working with our company have already a well-versed background or at least some certification recognized by the Tableau Desktop enterprise. Tableau Desktop is second only to Windows and consists of enormity in the amount of data connections and visualizations. We use this platform to pose as a processing engine to work with mega data bits to produce displays using queries of non-coded language.
October 23, 2019

Great for Data-Viz-Wizzes, Painful for Others

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau Desktop is used at our organization by most of our analysts, who then publish the reports to Tableau Server for distribution to everyone else in the organization to consume the information. This enables our analysts, myself included, to use Tableau Desktop to create helpful insights which can then be used by anyone at any technical level.
October 07, 2019

Turn Tables Into Vistas of Visualization with Tableau Desktop

BP
Benjamin Plotkin
Technical Project Manager
California State University, Northridge (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Seventy-five percent of our department uses Tableau Desktop, for a range of use cases, including the joining of related data sets for specialized reporting purposes, and also for the analysis of assessments data. Tableau allows us to easily merge and process large datasets without needing to be SQL experts, and to produce compelling and fluent data visualizations.
October 03, 2019

Still the Industry Standard for BI

GH Powell | TrustRadius Reviewer
GH Powell
Consultant
Zuar LLC (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a boutique consulting firm with the ability to choose what BI platform we consult with. Tableau remains the industry standard BI/Data Visualization Tool for business. It remains as our tool of choice for our customers and our internal reporting.

We have used it to solve all kinds of problems across the data value chain, from data exploration, automation of reports and providing insights.
September 19, 2019

The best tool for visualization and storytelling

Verified User
Partner in Product Management
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I work for a Data Sciences organization which provides consulting and corporate training in data science and visualization, and since Tableau is my bread and butter for visualization, either to understand my data or train people on the nuances of data. It is generally used across the organization although some people prefer using R and Python libraries in pockets.
September 18, 2019

Tableau is a sophisticated BI platform that's constantly improving

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Retail Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used to create analytics for distribution and use throughout the supply chain organization.
We have creators that publish to the server which other users leverage. That solves the business problem of sharing spreadsheets and everyone having a consistent view of the information.
September 16, 2019

Tableau Desktop - iReviewed

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Tableau Desktop mainly for creating dashboards that are live and easy to refresh when required. It helps in monitoring KPIs of our business that may go up or down on a daily bases. We also use Tableau Desktop for ad hoc analysis where we want to look at any trends & patterns that may be helpful to provide insights for the broader audience.
September 13, 2019

The Dominant Tool, But Will It Stay That Way?

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau was purchased on the recommendation of a SaaS provider to get analytic data from their product. The IT Dept currently is the only user of Tableau and processes all the data. Over two years our organization has used Tableau to go from zero analytic data to a significant amount for our size. Its use has grown far beyond the initial single SaaS tool we bought it to use with.
September 13, 2019

Tableau Desktop still is my go-to product in a crowded BI tool market

John Rome | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Rome
Deputy CIO and BI Strategist
Arizona State University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau Desktop is one of the primary business Intelligence tools we use at my organization. We have an enterprise license of Tableau server (8 core) that runs in the AWS Cloud. We have over 100 licenses of Tableau desktop and use it to help visualize and make data easier to consume. While it is used for some ad-hoc analysis, I would say it is used to deliver dashboards to employees, faculty, administrators who don't have a lot of reporting or SQL experience. Meanwhile, we also use tableau public to showcase our official data. These dashboards are built with Tableau Desktop as well.
August 09, 2019

Tableau is the market leader when it comes to Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization

Rahul Malik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rahul Malik
Senior Team Lead
Wipro Limited (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau has increased our business and productivity exponentially. Tableau helps to make data-driven decisions with confidence, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights more frequently. It is the backbone of our analytics department and it is used by us throughout the analytical life-cycle from data preparation to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward. Because of it, we are able to call out patterns and anomalies and it has helped us enormously in fraud detection as we will be recognizing the trends in the data which we use to feed the tool.
August 02, 2019

Tableau is a great data tool!

Aditya Gollakota | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aditya Gollakota
Consultant
Deloitte Digital (Management Consulting, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau Desktop is being used by our team for social media and raw data visualization. It addresses the problem of being able to visualize raw data from social channels to which we don't have the API access to integrate with our existing social media tools. It addresses the problems of being able to house and visualize data from all platforms in one place.
July 18, 2019

No tool is better than this for data visualization. A must have.

Akshaya Bhardwaj | TrustRadius Reviewer
Akshaya Bhardwaj
Consultant
WNS Global Services (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our company, we use this department-wide. The teams that work on data visualization use this product. The work on this tool is client specific, some teams use this to understand the data, some teams use it for making the good charts for presenting the data. The teams that are mainly using this tool are more into analytics.
July 15, 2019

Tableau is a good tool for those willing to invest the time

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Construction Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
While working for a large defense contractor, Tableau was adopted and implemented on a large scale and enterprise-wide. We used to Tableau to roll up and display data in charts that were used for decision making. We started using Tableau desktop to build models on top of datasets where inputs could be added to see what happens when certain variables are changed.
June 20, 2019

Visualization made simple, and complex!

Clinton Shields | TrustRadius Reviewer
Clinton Shields
Health Information Analytics Analyst
Kings View Community Services, Inc. (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently my organization is using Tableau Desktop to perform most if not all of our in-house analytics, it not only speeds up the process of our in house analytics but it also gives us plenty of options to customize and filter our reports. We also use Tableau as a consulting tool with our clients to help answer questions they have about their own business key performance indicators.
June 03, 2019

Best solution for BI (features + price)

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Today it is used to create/show dashboards for a specific product that we sell to customers. It is a fundamental tool to this application because it shows all data related to Industrial Internet solutions, and has many features that are awesome. It is used worldwide and it improves our solutions.
May 29, 2019

Basic desktop data science and analytics are now awalaible

Michael Sadofyev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Sadofyev
Data Management & Blockchain Senior Manager
PwC (Accounting, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Tableau as a tool to visualize analytics in many industries and search for insights. Data sources usually include SQL and CSV. We also use the ability to build white label solutions based on Tableau.
May 22, 2019

Visualization is the Future

Maddie Cheasick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Maddie Cheasick
Senior Sales Partnerships Specialist
Sojern (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau Desktop is being used to actively track sales achievement to the number of leads created per week to optimization reporting and everything in between! While the sales team here at Sojern are the main users, it can serve a purpose and be a resource for almost every department within the company.
May 21, 2019

Great visual tool for sharing data with others

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau is used across the organization to solve business problems. In our business unit, we use it to view data quality and staffing requirements for projects. In addition, we use it to perform data exploration on data to see what needs to be addressed. Other groups use it for all kinds of reporting needs.
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